Word: sitter
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CLAIM TO FAME King is the founder and CEO of Humanscale, a maker of ergonomic office products. Most high-performance desk chairs depend on a maze of knobs and levers to control the settings. Humanscale seat positions are based on the sitter's weight, so the chairs require fewer parts and use fewer environmental resources...
...Even if they aren't punching the clock, however, many Japanese seniors find alternative ways to contribute. Salaryman Masamichi Hagiwara wasn't ready to become a "window-sitter" when he reached his company's mandatory retirement age of 57. "I was still able to work every day," says Hagiwara, who spent 30 years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then...
...woman." While in Arizona, worried that she sounded a little depressed on the transatlantic phone, Bono asked his in- laws to "keep an eye on her. They must have rung her right away, because I got this phone call saying, 'I don't need a baby-sitter!' and she slammed down the phone." Ali made an unscheduled appearance in Arizona 48 hours later and stayed five days...
Typical advertisers in the Caretaker Gazette are people needing a house sitter while they go on an extended vacation; corporate retreats wanting to have someone on-site during months of vacancy; and national parks requiring a groundskeeper during the winter. Jobs can last from a few weeks to several years. Compensation runs the gamut from rent-free living in exchange for light chores to a small stipend for more extensive tasks to $60,000-to-80,000 a year plus living expenses for a more-than-full-time...
...hero of World Series Game 3 in St. Louis was Veteran Second Baseman Frank White, Kansas City's most thoroughly homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing...